Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 02 Oct 2002 17:40:06 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PCI brokenness 
Message-ID:  <200210021640.g92Ge6eO005337@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021002123404.jhb@FreeBSD.org> ; from John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:34:04 EDT."
References:  <XFMail.20021002123404.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> >> So it doesn't boot at all, that's different from "hard-hang during reboot".
> >> :)  After ppc your device probe is over.  You could be getting an
> >> interrupt storm.  Can you break into ddb when this happens? 
> > 
> > Roger the diference. :-)
> > 
> > No. I cannot break into DDB. The keyboard may as well not be there.
> 
> Humm.  :(  This is definitely a regression that needs to be fixed.
> (For the non-ACPI case).  Did you have this problem on older kernels
> as well?  Does 4.x work ok w/o hanging?

I'll check. The current problems are on my laptop, and I cannot afford
the trauma that reverting it to RELENG_4 will cause. I have a crash
box at home that I'll try.

> >> > In practical terms, this is a regression, in that previous function
> >> > has been removed before an adequate replacement was ready.
> >> 
> >> Ok, I have a question now.  How did ata get probed before?  If you
> >> add hints for it does it get probed?  It doesn't appear to be a PCI
> >> device.  It may be that we need to make it work as an ATA attachment
> >> somehow.  Also, did ata1 show up before?
> > 
> > Yes - I have hints.
> > 
> > Here is my hints file (which has not changed in at least 6 months)
> 
> Ok, so you only have ata0 and no ata1.  So that means the ACPI ata
> attachment almost worked.  Humm, try doing a hack to change ATA_IOADDR_RID
> in ata-all.h from 0 to 1 along with the previous patch to add an acpi
> attachment for ata and see if that works.  I still have no idea why
> the ata hint device isn't working.  It should be working fine. :(

OK. I'll get back to you shortly.

M
-- 
o       Mark Murray
\_
O.\_    Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200210021640.g92Ge6eO005337>